White Minimalist Usuki House by Tonoma
The design shaped in semicircle in the neighbor of the main building. Constructed of a main building and the barn, and posted the volume of the south side and the slippage volume which went in the shape of the hemicycle of the north side. The design site becomes a garden, and the appearance with various expressions is formed.
In arrangement, each room distributed by the volumes that aside and slippage, and the intersecting part becomes the lighting window. From the entrance hall of the south side, gentle light come in the corridor which bent. Through a western opening, therefore Impressive space is born. There is a tokonoma of the south side and courtyard of the north side in a Japanese-style room of the entrance west, and there is Living that a family lives in of the entrance east. Living and Dining becomes the characteristic space by placement of the volume.
In the second floor, the balcony through the two volumes and arrange the nursery of the south side and the master bedroom of the north side. As a result, inside space and remaining outside space formed by the condition of the site and placement of two volume bring about the slow relations of the family.
Location : Hyougo, Japan
Architect : Architect Associates Tonoma
